WTF is Howard River Rockbar : Landbased Fishing

Timmo · Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:35 pm Post subject: WTF is Howard River Rockbar

well packed the kids up for a bit of a drive in the new patrol and decided to look for the H/R Rockbar :fishing:

started of alright but got into a bit of a pickle down some bl..dy goat track :lol:

that just was soft as hell managed to get out but was a bit of a mission :banghead:

so decided to lock the hubs in and i was determined to find this place thought to myself just keep going down the other track :bonk:

well it was not to be just got more boggy like the other track. In the end tried for about 2 hours with no sign of th rock bar but was good fun anyway.......got to see a small mob of pigs but didnt have the bow with me due to shattering the bottom limb a few weeks back but was a nice boar in the group but pretty flighty when they saw me and the car. no fish didnt even wet a line. well catch ya around.

if any one is keen to go out for a look with another 4x4 let me know.

Mud · Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:12 pm Post subject:

would definately go out with another 4x4 timmo..its boggy as hell around there right now...I just went down to the iron bridge and its a mess round there. You did well to go exploring but I doubt that anyone would get to the rockbar....
Shane Doevey(?) put up some gps points to find the rockbar...if you dont have a hand held u can pm me and use mine..
Cheers
Mud

meter_seeker · Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:05 pm Post subject:

You wont get down there now mate, even before this recent monsoon moved in. I know guys with jacked up 4b's, 35inch mud terrains that still fail to get there, unfortunetly its this group of enthusiasts that have made it impassable. Quad country only now :wink:

shadymad · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:20 am Post subject: Howard Rockbar

Dont bother with a car,was there sunday on a 4wd quad,no
bait or barras yet,got bogged on the bike several times even
with 28 inch muddies.

meter_seeker · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:41 am Post subject: Re: Howard Rockbar

shadymad wrote:

got bogged on the bike several times even
with 28 inch muddies.

Really??? what quad and what tyres shadymad? never had a problem myself. Was there yesterday for a look the track is basically a river, one occasion i had to veer off the track an zig zag through the trees. Didnt take my fishing gear. Although it was around this time last year i got a 101 there, hoping for a repeat this week...hmmm...full moon tonight isnt it??? :wink:

harmsey · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:40 pm Post subject:

check out the latest NT MAG. has a good article on it

shadymad · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:55 pm Post subject: howard rockbar

Went down the original rockbar track,not through the middle just
to have a look at how much water in rice paddy.Had the bike in 2wd
most of the time till she got stuck then rode out of bog in 4wd.Got
28 inch itp mudlites.Was getting caught in deep car tracks.Good
luck with your metery Meter Seeker,got a 110 there 2008 wet when the
water flowed over the road at iron bridge,i'll have to learn how to post
pics. :cheers:

jabsy · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:04 am Post subject: Re: Howard Rockbar

meter_seeker wrote:

hmmm...full moon tonight isnt it??? :wink:

Ha they say the full moon brings out the mad bastards....

I've seen big enough lizards in there in the daylight, I dont like my chances of seeing them in the dark.

shadymad · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:44 pm Post subject: howard rockbar

Wont be able to fish rockbar landbased during night tides anyway.

bandit · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:51 pm Post subject:

me and the seeker had planned to fish the midnight low. :mrgreen:

no worries... didnt evenuate tho. he got food posioning or some cr.p. :-(

meter_seeker · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:33 pm Post subject:

coroboreebandit wrote:

me and the seeker had planned to fish the midnight low. :mrgreen:

no worries... didnt evenuate tho. he got food posioning or some cr.p. :-(

Suffering from bronchitis...i dont get food poisoning, my stomach is tamed. Where i come from we eat things still moving on the plate.

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